{"id":1931,"date":"2021-03-15T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutomesa.org\/revistamesa\/edicoes\/6\/portfolio\/cintya-ferreira-gabriel-de-souza-vieira-e-mariana-da-lima-silva\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:26:36","slug":"cintya-ferreira-gabriel-de-souza-vieira-e-mariana-da-lima-silva","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/institutomesa.org\/revistamesa\/edicoes\/6\/portfolio\/cintya-ferreira-gabriel-de-souza-vieira-e-mariana-da-lima-silva\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A brief inventory of little stumbles or say the word void out loud and watch it rise up in your throat and fill your mouth."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cintya Ferreira, Gabriel Vieira and Mariana de Lima (editors) with Dudu, Gaby, Isadora, Karina, Kaylane, Kaylanne Rodrigues, Larissa, Maria Clara Carrielo, Maria Clara (Zameii), Renata Targino, Raquel Danielli Mota and Thais. a brief inventory of little stumbles<\/em>, 2020. Still.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A brief inventory of little stumbles <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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say the word void out loud and watch it rise up in your throat and fill your mouth. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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To create a group on WhatsApp open the app and in the conversations tab click on “new group,” name the group, and then add the participants.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late June, there was almost twenty of us. One photo after another, something from the previous one continued into the next: the device of the first encounter. The presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time of the correspondence, the rhythm of the messages, the charge of reading, the slowness of the response, a certain tiredness, and some moments of euphoria. And doubts, always doubts. “Can we use our own image?” What images are ok?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to not fill the edges?  How to turn a blank \u2013 and black \u2013 space into an image? How to write in the margins? How to create in the gap? How to sew fragments while leaving the thread loose?    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still unnamed, the montage<\/em> appears in the middle of the conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We could start with this one, and then we move on to another photo taken from the window. It has a better connection”. Cinema is moving things around. Positioning what arrives from the world , once, twice, three times until something happens, even if that happening is exhaustion itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several times, the devices we proposed asked them to tell us about memories in which we had not taken part. On those occasions, our participation did not seem right.  It was rather when invitations, materialized, as if a parallel device, invented on the spur of the moment: “And what are you<\/em> going to do for the exercise? I have a challenge for you: get the list of songs that the teacher gave us, listen to it, and imagine yourself in the room, tell me what was your sensation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image also convokes: “Pause for the hummingbird”. A voice asks that the film suspends itself for an instant. Cinema is nothing, if not a standing still, for a bird to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our brief inventory of little stumbles<\/em> emerged from a rearrangement of gestures that came to us, from superimposing scenes \u2013 perhaps this was the only possible form of contact for a group that had never been all together presencially in the same room. Faced with this concrete (mis) encounter, the image becomes tactile, we lean into one another watching the recording of our daily lives pass by, beside, above,  in front of one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo, saudades de tu<\/em> [missing you]*”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if it were possible to trace a map with the sound of a voice? Draw a cartography with the eyes? S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo, I’m not sure how to say it, but something happens to me when I see your name written on a notebook sheet, that makes me want to rewrite, reinscribe, paper into film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* saudade<\/em> is an untranslatable word combining meanings of longing, homesickness and desire. For those whom Portuguese is not their mother tongue, we hope you can get a glimpse of these in our film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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